In this jewel of a clip, CNN’s Anderson Cooper goes for all the marbles when he says “It’s hard to talk when you’re teabagging” while David Gergen yucks it up. It doesn’t get any more disconcerting than watching these two guys analyze grassroots balls the size of the tea parties:

Anderson sounds like a man of experience.

Frankly, I think all these kinds of jokes are the result of the tea parties being too much substance for liberals to swallow, hence the ad hominem nuttery.